When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.